For Season 2 Episode 5, our guest is Jane Yolen. This is Part One of a two part discussion.

Jane is a prolific writer who has written books for children and adults. She's known for her telling fairy tales, the "How Do Dinosaurs..." series, The Devil's Arithmetic, Owl Moon, A Plague of Unicorns (Due out this December), and over 325 more books: http://bit.ly/YolenBooks 

Discussion Topics:

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• Jane Yolen, the United States' Hans Christian Anderson.
  
• Color Fairy Books.
  
• British Folklore Society.
  
• J.R.R. Tolkien's, "On Fairy Stories"
  
• The Andrew Lang Lecture (Jane was the first woman to give the Andrew Lang Lecture!)
  
• The Origin of the term "Fairy Tale"
  
• Fairytales vs. Folktales.
  
• Jane's Lumpy Poems.
  
• Fairy tales: The dark, the funny, the scary, the nonsense, the historical.
  
• The dubious, potentially twisted motives of Prince Charming.
  
• The "loving" of Sleeping Beauty by the prince.
  
• How to keep the old stories alive and relevant.
  
• Our responsibility to the original tales.
  
• French Huguenot origin of the German Folktales collected by the Grimms.
  
• What is the original tale to you? Mixing tales together.
  
• Did you know that Cinderella's Slippers were probably made of squirrel fur?
  

Jane shares a story of Truth!

People mentioned: Milbre Burch, Andrew Lang, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Grimms, Carol Burch, Neil Gaiman

Works to enjoy:

"Snow Glass Apples" by Neil Gaiman (in the anthology Smoke and Mirrors)
Snow in Summer, a Novel by Jane Yolen
The Tolkien Reader, J.R.R. Tolkien 

Visit Jane online at www.janeyolen.com

Music courtesy of Kevin McLeod
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
www.incompetch.com
"Shores of Avalon"
"Path of the Goblin King"

Intro and Outro Music also Courtesy of Kevin McLeod
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www.incompetch.com
For a full list of music used in the Intro and Outro, click here.

Music Courtesy of Zep Hur
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"Selkie's Daughter"
Zep Hur - Licensed under Creative Commons

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